Detecting unit standing in shallow and deep water

[gameshow]

I saw a post on this, which mentioned pathability tests, which also went right over my head. How can i detect, using triggers, if a unit is in shallow or deep water?

 

[WolfieeifloW]

I don't believe so.
There's a way to determine what type of tileset the unit is on, but waters aren't listed.

 

[gameshow]

Huh. So regions only i guess?

 

[WolfieeifloW]

No, different terrain-type's such as Lordaeron Dirt, Northrend Snow, Outland Rough Dirt, etc.

EDIT: You mean regions for water?
I guess you could do that.
Again, as far as I know, someone else could know how.

 

[gameshow]

Yeah, i meant just spamming regions all over my water (really not ideal - i expect terrain layout to change a lot)

 

[WolfieeifloW]

For shallow water you can actually control which terrain-type it is for the bottom.
You could then save one specific type for shallow water and use that;
Then use a terrain-type comparison.
Deep water might actually use a terrain-type on the bottom of it in which case a type comparison would work;
As long as you only use that type of terrain in the water.

 

[gameshow]

That may be a good option (tho it makes it hard to have my rivers look good). I think there may be a JASS avenue that will work for me. Some function called IsTerrainPathable, and running a check on "float". i'm checking it out now

 

[WolfieeifloW]

I don't know JASS, yet, so good luck!

 

[gameshow]

Heh, me neither, but I have done a fair bit of c/c++ programming, so hopefully it isn't a big deal to pick up.

 

[Naga'sShadow]

There's a boolean condition terrain pathability. I know options include naval and amphibious, deep and shallow water. I'd offer more help but I was never able to get that specific trigger working.

 

[AceHart]

> I think there may be a JASS avenue that will work for me.

FWIW, that works in GUI too...

• Pathability
  • Events
    • Player - Player 1 (Red) skips a cinematic sequence
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Set Point = (Position of <some pre-placed unit that you can walk around>)
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • (Terrain pathing at Point of type Walkability is off) Equal to False
      • Then - Actions
        • Game - Display to (All players) the text: Walk
      • Else - Actions
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • (Terrain pathing at Point of type Buildability is off) Equal to False
      • Then - Actions
        • Game - Display to (All players) the text: Build
      • Else - Actions
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • (Terrain pathing at Point of type Floatability is off) Equal to False
      • Then - Actions
        • Game - Display to (All players) the text: Float
      • Else - Actions
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • (Terrain pathing at Point of type Amphibious Pathing is off) Equal to False
      • Then - Actions
        • Game - Display to (All players) the text: Amphibious
      • Else - Actions
    • Custom script: call RemoveLocation(udg_Point)

Give yourself some unit, walk around a bit, and press "escape" in interesting spots.

Shallow water shoud say "walk" and "float".
Deep water only says "float".

"Amphibious" applies to all of them so it isn't all that useful.